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Essay 800 Labor Day Fatalities Bruce Jay Friedman shares the inspiration behind his latest book, The Peace Process: A Novella and Stories as a Visiting Scribe this week on The… Bruce Jay Friedman November 9, 2015
Essay History and Historians Eric Gartman is the author of Return from Zion: The History of Modern Israel. He will be blogging here all week as part of the Visiting Scribe series on The… Eric Gartman November 9, 2015
Essay Israeli Fare: A Multitudinous Cuisine Earlier this week, Falafel Nation author Yael Raviv questioned whether a shared cuisine can really bring about peace. She is blogging here all week as part of… Yael Raviv November 4, 2015
Essay Can Peace Really Be Achieved Through a Shared Cuisine? Yael Raviv is the author of Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel. She will be blogging here all week as part of the Visiting Scribe… Yael Raviv November 2, 2015
Essay Imagining Buddy & Holly The following is a redacted version of My Father’s Guitar and Other Imaginary Things: True Stories author Joseph Skibell original essay for Jewish Book… Joseph Skibell October 30, 2015
Essay ‘Slice It Thin’ by Sylvia Leland and Other Imaginary Books The following is a redacted version of Joseph Skibell’s original essay for Jewish Book Council. He is blogging here all week as part of the Visiting… Joseph Skibell October 27, 2015